US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC, GE AVIO on July 8 for "Differential gearbox assembly for a turbine engine" (Indian, American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,214, issued on July 8, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio) and GE AVIO S.R.L. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Differential gearbox assembly for a turbine engine" was invented by Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Andrea Piazza (Turin, Italy), Gontla Nagashiresha (Bengaluru, India), Bugra H. Ertas (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Sanjeev Jha (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential gearbox assembly for a turbine engine having a fan shaft and a drive shaft. The differential gearbox assembly includes an epicyclic gear assembly coupling the fan shaft to the drive shaft. The epicyclic gear assembly ...